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Chas. D. Dixon, M. D.

crime, but claimed that they had quarreled and that the oldman had attacked him, and he killed him in self defence.He was tried three times, the first time he received thedeath penalty, the second time a hung jury, and a third timean acquittal. He attempted to rape his young lady stenog-rapher several years ago at Houston. For this he was triedthree times, and escaped the penitentiary by one of thejurors holding out on two occasions. The second trial thepresiding judge when he dismissed the jury, used thesewords, "On my own motion I transfer this case to SanJacinto County, as I believe it will not be so easy to reachthe jury as it seems to be here." Hughes made the state-ment that this case cost him twelve thousand dollars.Hughes ran offices several years in Houston under variousnames, as Dr. H. S. Broyles, Dr. Green and Co., Dr. L. A.Sterns, Dr. Edward Parlan, Dr. Allen, Dr. N. A. Haislip, Dr.Marable, and the German American Specialist. The activ-ity of the Harris County Medical Society became so greatin having his victims file suit against them that the fieldwas no longer profitable. So he left the country. Federalindictments have been obtained against his men. Some ofthem have been sent to prison and some have left betweensuns. So the great King-Hughes Specialists in men's di-seases, are a thing of the past in Texas.DR. THIES.This dispenser of wonderful "cures" was run out ofSpringfield, Ill., and blew into San Antonio during the win-ter of 1913. He opened an office, and ran a glaring adver-tisement lauding his wonderful ability to cure sufferingmen and sometimes women. His medical career only lastedabout two months. He discovered that there was a betteropening just over the hill for a doctor of his wonderfulability.